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  • I love pinter and "Absurd Theatre "

  • haha yea... pretty sick. But (there's always a but), there's no gunshot... and in the play, Gus exits left and enters right. I actually think thats a major detail of the play (because I argue that Gus was never in the room...just Ben haunted by his conscience over having to kill his long-time friend and partner).

  • Really good mate well done - but PLEASE for future showings or w/e please get rid of the gunshot - it's not in the script. If there had meant to be one - there would have been one in the script.

    But well done none the less :)

  • Nicely condensed mate. But as some of the comments say, get rid of the gunshot. That's the big finish. I bet it was hard cutting it down. Nice one.

  • it may be more clever but its emotionally much more effective for an audience to have a conclusion, especially such a distressing one...pity it was a violent conclusion in this case, but given Pinters hatred of everything its a good one...really good condensation

  • Great :D

  • aw you made a conclusion.. at the end of the dumb waiter script the whole suspence is when Gus is stripped of his gun, jacket, ect. Ben holds the gun up in suprise and THEN...the lights go out. good job on condencing it down any way ^^

  • Oh wow, really well done. Really condensed it down well, probably a tough job. Why did you decide to include the gunshot at the end? It would've been interesting to see the effect without.. cheers

  • nice animatic. did you use photoshop?

  • when that guy got shot i really jumped!! :o

  • WTF I missed the meaning here >>>>>>>>>>>>???

  • hes hired to kill gus

  • very cool

  • uuummmm whats with the mixed coloures at the start?

  • i like the brown stains on the characters :D:D:D

  • the animation wasn't bad, but you wrecked the ending by putting in the gunshot. Read the play again. The whole point is that it is left open ended weather Gus gets shot. that's why it's called the dumb waiter. There is the dumb waiter itself. Gus is the dumb waiter because he is stupid and waiting. Ben is the dumb waiter because he is waiting and doesn't question things. So the audience is left at the end wondering if Ben will kill his friend. It's much cleverer and more interesting that way.

  • Oooh wow, me likey.

  • It's about two hitmen, they don't know they've been assigned to kill each other.

    Yeah, it's weird, the way Pinter wrote it, but that's basically the point.

  • Interresting work. I like how u drew the characters and the backgrounds.

  • i dont get it,

  • i dont get it either..

  • it's pretty good but to tell the truth, I really didn't get it. 3/5

  • For those who dont get itthe guy is cleaning up as in tying up all loose ends so no one can trace the death back to the organization.

    At least thats how I understand it

  • I believe a simple pan up would have sufficed. also you didnt introduce that the bald man was wielding the gun, perhaps the medium long shot to establish who is holding what, then a snap truck/close up cut on the gun then the assassinated person's face.

  • Onto a few things that i think you could improve on. the first would be that you crossed the line of axis a few times and it throws the view off. the part when the bald man answers the call and the next scene shows: the guys feet, changes angle, medium close of the guys face and then an over the should.

  • I generally liked it, very grungy and I don't know if those were your voice actors, but very convincing.

  • omg! i love the animation! very cool video!

  • i don't get it ...

  • very well done especially with thte stains

  • can someone please reply to this.

    not sure if i get this exactly.

  • i got it from youtube. the video is above the comment boxes. just push play...though it should play by itself.

  • Wikipedia The Dumb Waiter.

    The two hitmen were assigned to kill each other, basically.

  • what a dumb video

  • That was lovely.

  • i don't get the story either

    but the animation is good

    sound is good

    i think i'll watch it again after reading a summary of the play

  • this is pretty coOl!

  • background sounds where from hostel , the game of hostel i think and the idea too it makes me think bout hostel xD

    Greetz

  • i like how you colored the hitmen to look like they're spattered in blood even tho they're in white collar get-ups. Like no matter what they do, their deeds are always there.

  • i didnt get it...........

  • lol

  • am soo lost :()

  • i couldnt see a serving hatch or anything bizarre in this.

  • loved it :)

  • Nice-dark ambient...

  • I love it!!! But I don't get it at all. I just really like it.

  • A great take on 'The Dumb Waiter'; very plausible. The loud firing of the gun at the end of the animation was extremely effective.

  • Wow, did you really make this all on your own? It is very nice. I wish you would have added more to it, but anyways it is very good. You have some talent.

  • A Dumb Waiter is a small elevator used to deliver food. In this animation there is a dumb waiter.

  • I thought it was a pile of s***

  • yeah............ i dont get it.

  • Nicely drawn. The voice acting is really extrodinary

  • The animation is very poor, this video needs to be removed and redone, by someone who might know what their doing.

  • Wow i loved this! (:

    And fyi, In Bruges wasn't created by the genius Harold Pinter :D

  • hey it's not really funny that this person's english is bad.

  • the ambiance is gloomy, the animation style is unique. the dubbing is appropriate. 4 stars :)

  • Well, i thought it was a humorous video...

    -But it wasn't funny at all!

  • its pretty good and i think i read that play

    really cool animation it fits the atmosphere

  • Great job condensing it - It couldn't have been easy! Loved the symbolism of the paint splashes and the detail! :)

    (Tiny film blooper, though, at the end, Gus isn't wearing suspenders when he walks in, but later angles show that he is. I know, I know, it's really anal of me, but I just noticed.)

  • 好东西,支持~这里有中国的朋友吗?

  • Denken Sie daran erinnern, die fünfte von November Schießpulver, Verrat und Handlung. Ich sehe keinen Grund, warum Schießpulver, Verrat Sollte ich jemals vergessen ...

  • yeah this was abit of a rip off from the movie In Bruges...starring Colin Farrel.

  • You are a fucking philistine. Please, if you dont know what you are talking about, please do a little bit of fucking research before making ridiculous statements like 'this is a rip off of In Brugge' or whatever it was your cretinous brain conspired to type.

    The Dumb Waiter, one of the greatest plays in the English language, was written by Harold Pinter in 1964.

    I think i know who is ripping off who.

  • 1957.

  • point. +1

  • Hahahahahahaha, holy shit, fuck off you elitist scum. You're nothing special for knowing who Harold Pinter is, force a shovel down your throat you arrogant fuck. And "one of the greatest plays in the English language"? Please. "You are a fucking philistine".

  • So that means that In Bruges copied some of it's story from this play. Even though it seems that the story of In Bruges seems to expand farther then the hit.

  • Apparently, there is a big gap between knowledge and politeness.

  • Wow, GIDT at work...

    But anyway, yeah - In Bruges is based on The Dumb Waiter. The names of the guys in In Bruges (Cranham and Blakey) are even the last names of the actors from a TV version of The Dumb Waiter.

  • You noticed the similarities, but drew the wrong conclusions.

    The Dumb Waiter was written by Harold Pinter in 1957 and was brought to stage as early as 1960. In Bruges contains many similar elements to both "Dumb Waiter" and "Don't Look Now" both of which were critically acclaimed works in their right well before the film In Bruges.

  • I was also reminded of In Bruges, but it's not fair or accurate to compare the two directly.

    I enjoyed the animation and the voice acting.

  • hahahha collin farrel haha what a joke of an actor

  • I DONT GET IT???!! :S

  • Two hitmen get assigned to kill eachother, what's not to get?

    Perhaps you'll have to know a bit about the play it's based on to undersand it, The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter. Wikipedia it... Sure Wiki's unreliable for some things but not this sort of thing I imagine.

  • Kinda like the movie "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"?

  • Very nice job. Did you create this by yourself? And how long did it take for you to make this?

  • niceee vid--especially liked the drawing style used for it... it would've been cool to see more of the play portrayed like this, cuz so much had to be left out to fit the time frame... but i really liked it :))

  • cool

  • I loved reading that play!

  • well that didn't really do the play justice...

  • wow...

  • Very well done indeed

  • It would be lovely if it had subtitles (also in English, ofcourse)

  • Their accents make them really hard to understand.

  • great play but you missed the best bit "the kettle you fool"

    also the gunshot is never heard or seen in the original leaving the ending slightly more open

  • nicely done!!!i mean i dnt care abt the plot....the plot maybe abstract but still u took a lot of effort on ur video and thts good!

  • absurdism often deals with many familiar themes, an unexplained mystery which the characters have some knowledge but the audience is left unaware even of whether the answer would have meaning, in order to reenforce a feeling of perpetual hopeless confusion, this is perhaps central to the philiosiphy of absudist fiction, that while there may be meaning the search is likely to be fruitless and maddening until you look like a fool,a tarot fool.everyone has a different interperatation of key events.

  • I didn't get it, but I enjoyed the artwork. Maybe if I watch it again I will catch on.

  • REAAALLYYY COOOOOL. i wish i knew more background information.

  • the gunshot scared the piss outa me!

    lol

    cool clip

  • hmmm.....i don't get it but i still commend the effort put in by the creator.

  • lol. i knew the shot was coming, but it still made me jump anyways. :s

  • I LOVE this work by Pinter! Congrats on the feature.

  • Sorry Doombah but this is not absurdism. Pinter wrote this in 1957, and while it is true that this was during the hayday of Beckett and his groundbreaking absurdism. Despite the play's gloomy ending, The Dumb Waiter is best described as a "comedy of menace." Since there is a clear plot line, absurdism is out of the categorical question for this one.

  • Odd but entertaining

  • that was kinda boring

  • todos comans mierda

  • So dumb, hate this crap

  • Nice, but you left out the best part;

    "Light the kettle."

  • haaahaa cool nice vidoooooo

    like that

  • I really like this play, one of my favorites that i've worked on. I really like the artwork in this short. Props.

  • This was really quite good. I love Absurdism, and Pinter's work is up in the ranks of Stoppard and Ionesco. I read this play last semester and thought it would be a wonderful piece to direct. Great artwork. It captured the atmosphere of the play.

  • i loved reading that play!!!

  • that was really stupid.... i mean i get it, but it was just dumb. i thought there was gonna be random items coming down the dumb waiter, and they were tryin to figure out what it means..

  • your dumb

  • well there wasnt enough time for the whole play but i can clarify, two guys are in the basement and they argue over semantics of tea,

    the guy reads the newspaper to the other and he strts asking questions that soon (as per absurdism) turn into nonsense.

    the waiter keeps sending down food orders that seem to be confusing to the two. after an argue ment the guy leaves the tube gives the order and then the end.

  • um...okay the video itself was really good. but the content of it...i just dont really get..like at all. and i dont really see why its called "the dumb waiter" lol i just really dont get it. but like i said good "video"

  • The "dumb waiter" is sort of a elevator to deliver food. Besides being in the play, the "dumb waiter" is used as a metaphor. Read the play, its a great one.

  • there were no "requests via service elevator"

  • Cool I like it

    (: oʇ ʍoɥ noʎ ןןǝʇ ʎןןɐnʇɔɐ ı ʇoq ǝʞɐɟ ɐ ʇou ɯı (: ǝɯ ǝƃɐssǝɯ sıɥʇ ǝʞıן ǝdʎʇ oʇ ʍoɥ uɹɐǝן oʇ ʇuɐʍ noʎ ɟı

  • Wow Brilliant, i got an A* in drama a couple of months ago for playin ben in a school performance :) Great play

  • OMGZ SO GOOD.

    Well, it would have been if there was any point to it.

  • I don't understand this artsy shit they put out nowadays. So was the guy with the hair really the one to be assassinated? I thought they were talking about someone else. Cool concept just I can't figure it out.

  • This is based off of a play written by Harold Pinter during the dramatic period known as Absurdism. After World War II people thought life had no meaning (because of all the death brought by the war) and the world just didn't make sense, so they wrote plays to reflect that. Another great example of Absurdism is Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett. I remember this play ending a little bit more ambiguously, but it's supposed to leave you wondering which of them was the target, if it was either.

  • that's really interesting.

    I'm glad to hear an intellectual speak.

    Smart people on the internet, who knew?!

  • i like to work in secret.

  • Imagine that, eh? :) Glad to be of service!

  • Thanks for explaining that, I haven't seen this play and I didn't know the literary background, but it makes much more sense now.

  • i remember waiting for godot,he never arrives and there were a whole bunch of theories about what it meant and who godot really was, i found it funny when they wanted to hang themselves for stiffies (most likely a representitive of mankinds periods of sometimes suicidal social hedonism at least in the "human psyche" interperatation)

    other fine absurdist work is "L'estrange" (the stranger), "the trial", or "metamorphosis". but here there is not enough time for the dramatic themes to come out.

  • Absurdism is a really interesting movement, and if this interested you, you should check out Waiting For Godot by Beckett. It's really well written and seeing it performed by talented actors is an absolute joy! Always glad to help out when I can.

  • Yeah, definitely. This animation really has been well condensed: you do get a strong feel of Absurdism. But... why is it called "The Dumb Waiter"? Ahaha I feel like a dumb waiter now.

  • Dumb Waiter is a play on words... a dumbwaiter is a small elevator meant to deliver items between floors. In this case, it was the centerpiece of the short story since the characters were their next hit job to be delivered by the dumbwaiter.

    Of course the flip side is that one of the characters waiting was unaware that he in fact was the target (hence, he was the Dumb Waiter)

  • A dumbwaiter is a sort of elevator, which restaurants use, to send food between floors.

    In the play, orders keep getting sent down to the hitmen, without apparent reason. The tube that the guy talks through at the end, is used for communication between the floors.

    So there's quite a bit of focus on the dumbwaiter, though why it's split into two words, I really have no idea.

  • Well Pinter's real grit was the fact he was the essence of the theatre of "Menace". Not knowing what you are afraid of, but you know you're afraid.

  • No, No, No, This is based on the medieval works of Rowan Atkinson. After the black plague the drama troupes explored a genre known as "Manzai (Heian)" A good example of this form of comedy can be seen during the renaissance period in a movie called "The Last Temptation of Christ: Pulpfiction style"

  • i get what the video means but what does it have to do with the dumb waiter

  • The Dumb Waiter is about two killers in a basement type area awaiting their next instructions. It had everything to do with The Dumb Waiter.

  • Its good, but I don't really get the point, other than to make another version of the script.

  • what the hell was that all about?

  • Wow, the comments are more entertaining than the video. So... many... stupid... people.

  • wow! what an awesome twist! It's like... you never know who's going to be killed next... it could be you.

  • this is great I want to go and find the play and read it now

  • so....... this made absolutely no sense.

  • If you watch In Bruge you will understand this more! Brilliant!

  • ..........

    Its good.

  • That was great!

  • I kept expecting the ominous voice of Jigsaw to suddenly break in and say "Hello gentlemen. I want to play a game!"

  • haha, same here

  • hahaha, i know right?!?!

  • WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF WTF WAS THAT

    i don't understand these featured videos nowadays.

  • very nice i liked it alot

  • i dont get this at all......

  • ...

  • Well done. Not for tasteless dopes.

  • .... wtf?

  • LOL! I'm still sitting here with my mouth open!

  • yeah me too

  • What a shit video!

  • lets see your video you piece of shit!! because i don't see one on your profile

  • awesome voice acting and im glad i understand why the shirts are stained b4 the thing began, also o those who dont understand why the guy got shot im just guessing that someone hired a hit on him and the guy took it...thus making this scene a betrayal scene

  • I liked it.

  • WTF IS THIS?

  • Pretty good. It's a bit too straightforward for my taste, Pinter's play was really enigmatic and creepy and kept you guessing as to what the hell was going on. But that's what you get with time constraints, I suppose.

  • hihihi

  • i think the name of this movie should be "THE DUMB MOVIE" not jokin it was that bad

  • its ok

  • Wow the DUMB waiter really lived up to its name.

  • ..."Meanwhile, increasingly bizarre orders keep arriving via a serving hatch..." um, nothing arrived....

  • their shirts keep looking stained because they're CONTRACT KILLERS!!!

  • wtf y did they pwn him?

  • dumb

  • hey I dont mean to offend but I dont watch alot of an animations and wanted to know why their shirts always looked stained?

  • Im thinking it was blood and that they were in in a dusty room. or watever.

    I loved this animation. much better than seeing a dumb Inuyasha or watever.

  • form of art i guess

  • their shirts looked stained to show that they're killers. the stains look like blood in a way.

    -peace out-

  • this is a more modern way to tell a story.. its unique.. ill say that

  • Great Job! Nice sound editing.

  • ya liked it. nice.

  • the gunshot made me jump.

  • Good job! I like the play, and I thought this worked well. Really had the right tone, I feel. Thanks.

  • i dont get it. i cant understand them and i don't know who's talking because they dont move their mouths.

  • For the amount of time that was taken, this is pretty good. Nice job with the ending. More time would allow for the suspense to build a little more.

  • This was sick....

  • True artistry.

  • that was pretty cool, art was interesting as well :)

  • WOW!That was just cool!I've just given an English literature exam on Pinter and Beckett! My compliments!

  • clever.

    and nice animation too.

  • nice~

  • very good, never saw the end coming.

  • good

  • i like the animation style. xP

  • nice video